TATTERSHALL or Tateshall is a small market town in the wapentake of
Gartree. It is situated on the banks of the river Bane, near its
junction with the river Witham, and is distant nine miles south west from
Horncastle. It is a place of considerable antiquity, having been a Roman
military station; traces of two encampments of that warlike people being
still visible, at a short distance from the town, in a place called
Tattershall park. Several Roman coins have also been found in different
parts of the parish.
[Picture: Tattershall Church and Castle, from the South East]